Anti-Semitic acts in U.K. spike in first half of 2016

Pebble stones lie on a memorial stone on the grounds of the former Prisoner of War and concentration camps Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, north of Hanover, central Germany, on June 21, 2015 (AFP Photo/Nigel Treblin)

Anti-Semitic incidents increased by 11 percent for the first half of 2016 compared with the first half of 2015, according to the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity combating anti-Jewish behavior. The organization, which often provides security at civilian events where there is a fear of anti-Semitic violence, said a total of 557 cases of malicious…